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Hi everyone. I have my headphones plugged in and am getting poor sound quality out of them. My computer says that the sound is coming through my speakers, but its not (its just coming through the headphones.) I've attached a picture of what the comp's showing me for reference. I've tried going to the Sound menu and making the headphones the default device, with no luck. This issue seemed to happen after I was done using Google video chat with my headphones plugged in. I am trying to get the sound quality in my headphones back to normal. They work with every other device. Please help!

It will not let me make the headphones the default device manually, even if I select the headphones and select "Default Device." For some reason, it only makes them the default communication device when I do that. I've attached a picture for reference.

Also, I have a volume control switch on my headphones that will not control the volume on my computer when the headphones are plugged in, although it will control the volume on my smart phone. A very strange occurrence!

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If anyone has a fix for this I'd be very grateful.

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Ive...

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